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terraced walls of rock between, or long green slopes with turretts & castles of rock at their Summits. Frequently it would be a long grassy slope from the bottom, then midway a perpendicular wall of rock 20 or 50 or 100 ft. high, and above that another long grassy slope rounding away, perhaps sprinkled occasionally with trees, to a beautifully crowning summit, which you may imagine the edge of the mighty prairie whose only horizon is the sky above it. And then the variety of form and positions, as ravines & brooklets & streams and rivers come down through or among these magnificent barriers to mingle with the Old Father of Waters. And then the valley below this 2 to 5 Miles of River is but little of it water. It is full of Islands, Islands of every shape; low grassy islands, with lagoons full of lillies in quiet beauty; Islands of bushes; & magnificently wooded Islands; high prairie Islands, or sprinkled with low trees like orchards - and all just as nature left it - . Then the river, in numerous & varied channells everywhere winding, gliding or hurrying among these islands. The course of the Steamboat would be, now, in a channel at one side right under a mighty perpendicular bluff of rock, the home of the Eagles; now winding for miles along the beautiful Islands; and anon on the other shore skirting that Magnificent slope, a very mountain of smooth grass.